I was intrigued by this book from the very first page until the last, although I thought the ending was a bit dragged out and some parts seemed repetitive. My imagination went wild with this story and I had a hard time putting the book down so I not only lost a night of sleep reading but also a night remembering...

A horse abruptly lashes out and kills Ted Wilkenson, his grieving widow walks a wilderness trail and falls to her death. MaryAnne Carpenter, newly separated and struggling to raise her two children alone, has rushed to embrace her orphaned godchild. Soo she will begin to realize that Joey Wilkenson harbors secrets beyond her most nightmarish imaginings and her tender feelings for him turn to fear.

A telephone rings in the dead of night with shocking news for single mother MaryAnne Carpenter: her friends the Wilkensons are suddenly, inexplicably dead, their only child, MaryAnne's godchild, abruptly orphaned. But as MaryAnne rushes to embrace her young charge, disturbing questions mount. Was it merely a chance, tragic mishap that took these lives? Or murder?

A telephone rings in the dead of night with shocking news for single mother MaryAnne Carpenter, her friends the Wilkensons are suddenly, inexplicably dead, their only child, MaryAnne's godchild abruptly orphaned. But as MaryAnne rushes to embrace her young charge, disturbing questions mount. Was it merely a chance, tragic mishap that took these lives? or Murder?

A telephone rings in the dead of night with shocking news for a single mother MaryAnne Carpenter: her friends the Wilkensons are suddenly, inexplicably dead, their only child, MaryAnne's godchild, abruptly orphaned. But as MaryAnne rushes to embrace her young charge, disturbing questoins mount. Was it merely a chance, tragic mishap that took these lives? Or murder?